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Guardian Unlimited:

George Monbiot: Channel 4 is deceiving itself about global warming

Guardian Unlimited (Science):

Climate change film was 'unjust and unfair'

Guardian Unlimited (Science):

Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe's electricity, says EU - Largescale renewable energy grid at heart of plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing power of desert sun

Science Daily:

Costs Of Climate Change, State-by-state: Billions, Says New Report - Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of US states, says a new series of reports. The researchers conclude that the costs have already begun to accrue and are ... >

Science Daily:

Costs Of Climate Change For U.S. In Billions

Science Daily:

Past Climate Change: Continental Stretching Preceding Opening Of The Drake Passage

Science Daily:

July 25, 2008 - - Due to the impact of global warming, it has become essential to understand the causes and processes involved in past climate changes. One of the most prominent events in Earth's climatic evolution ... >

Sydney Morning Herald:

Climate change: feed it and weep or lead and reap

Times of India:

Blame TV ads for warming!

Environmental News Network:

the San Francisco Chronicle - California, six other Western states and four Canadian provinces launched plans on Wednesday for one of the world's largest carbon-trading systems, a sweeping effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.

Environmental News Network:

Climate Change Business Consulting; A Review Of Major League Players' Strengths And Weaknesses.

Environmental News Network:

Destruction of Wetlands Could Unleash Carbon Bomb

Environmental News Network:

Northern Wildfire Smoke May Cast Shadow on Arctic Warming - The Arctic may get some temporary relief from global warming if the annual North American wildfire season intensifies, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado and NOAA. Smoke transported to the Arctic from northern forest fires may cool the surface for several weeks to months at a time, according to the most detailed analysis yet of how smoke influences the Arctic climate relative to the amount of snow and ice cover.

Environmental News Network:

Australia seems set to push ahead with a controversial emissions trading scheme aimed at reducing greenhouse gases which, if not actually effectual, will at least signal to the world the way it might be going to avert catastrophic anthropomorphic climate change. With DownUnder producing just 1.3 per cent of the globe's greenhouse gases, though, and the proposed ETS aimed at halving this but over many, many years, it is no great surprise to find even ETS architect Ross Garnaut arguing the need for China to curb its emissions. Big time.

All Africa News:

Think Globally, Act Locally [editorial] - THE financial, food-price and energy-cost crises reverberating around the world is clear evidence of just how inextricably connected the inhabitants of the global village are. The same applies to the environment and climate change.

All Africa News:

Africa: Link Between Crop Failure And Climate Change Often Missed

New Scientist:

Commercial bees spread parasite to wild cousins - A nasty bug often found in captive bumble bees that are kept to pollinate greenhouse crops may be spreading as insects escape into the wild

New Scientist:

Climate change could mean a two-month change in the start of the snowmelt by the end of the century, suggests a new model

Discovery Online:

Power From Poop: Putting Manure to Use - Converting methane waste into energy is becoming an increasingly feasible proposition.

Jakarta Post:

RI needs $728m in financial aid to fight climate change

Terra Daily:

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 - A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce U.S. oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, but making hydrogen vehicles competitive in the automotive market will not be easy. While the development of fuel cell and hydrogen production technology over the past several years has been impressive, challenges ...

On Line Opinion:

Meeting the carbon challenge? The place of your house in the city - Expecting to meet the carbon challenge without adjusting our cities is like telling your doctor you want a lung cancer cure without giving up smoking!

On Line Opinion:

Meeting the carbon challenge? The place of your house in the city

EurekAlert!:

Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops - Resisting pressures to convert wetlands for agriculture, bio-fuels and hydro-electricity is vital to avoid destroying ecosystems that provide a suite of services essential to humanity, including safe, steady local water supplies, preserving biodiversity and the large-scale capture and storage of climate warming greenhouse gases, according 700 leading world experts concluding a week-long meeting in Cuiaba, Brazil.

EDIE:

NYC to cut building emissions - New York City has announced plans to cut energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of public buildings by almost a third over the next ten years.

EDIE:

Climate change to cost Andean countries billions

Environmental News Service:

Avoiding Deforestation to Limit Climate Change 'Cheap and Practical'

Environmental News Service:

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 23, 2008 (ENS) - Wealthy nations could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally by paying landowners in developing nations not to clear forested land for agriculture, finds a new study by a research team from Austria, Brazil and the United States. The research attaches estimated dollar amounts to each metric ton of carbon that could be saved through avoided deforestation in Africa, Central and South America, and Southeast Asia.

International Herald Tribune:

New voices are challenging their peers on the left and right in the debate over climate change.

ABC News Online:

July 25, 2008 14:09:00 - Federal Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson says energy security is just as important as reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

ABC News Online:

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd continues touring regional Australia today with a trip to the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns in far north Queensland to inspect the effects of climate change.

Reuters:

US-Canada carbon trading group eyes 2012 start

Environmental Finance:

SGS launches [lsquo]carbon neutrality[rsquo] label

Environmental Finance:

UK carbon lobby bodies to merge

Environmental Finance:

July issue of - Carbon Finance

GreenBiz:

Climate Change & Wine: July 31 and Aug. 1

GreenBiz:

Climate Change Fight Requires 'New Deal' Effort

GreenBiz:

Greener World Media offsets its carbon footprint provided by Green Mountain Energy Company.

Reuters:

US-Canada carbon trading group eyes 2012 start

Terra Daily:

Caltech Scientists Offer New Explanation For Monsoon Development

Terra Daily:

Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 - Geoscientists at the California Institute of Technology have come up with a new explanation for the formation of monsoons, proposing an overhaul of a theory about the cause of the seasonal pattern of heavy winds and rainfall that essentially had held firm for more than 300 years. The traditional idea of monsoon formation was developed in 1686 by English astronomer and mathematician Edmond ...

CBS:

Hurricane Dolly's Costly Fury (2:39)

Yahoo (Top Stories):

Thu Jul 24, 6:17 PM ET - BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - Hurricane Dolly, which lashed the U.S.-Mexico coastline, weakened to a tropical depression on Thursday over South Texas, but concern remained over flooding along the populous Rio Grande Valley.

Yahoo (Top Stories):

Hurricane Katrina

Christian Science Monitor:

Hurricane season: big start

Terra Daily:

Corpus Christi, Texas (AFP) July 24, 2008 - Tropical Storm Dolly dumped rain over Texas and Mexico Thursday after pummeling the coast as a category two hurricane a day earlier, leaving widespread floods in its wake. The Gulf of Mexico's first hurricane of the season ripped off rooftops, shattered windows and toppled trees and power lines, but the storm surge did not cause any breach in south Texas levees as some authorities had feared ...

Terra Daily:

Dolly Now A Tropical Storm, Shattered Brownsville Rainfall Records

Terra Daily:

Tigbauan, Philippines (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 - The replanting of mangroves on the coasts of the Philippines could help save many of the lives lost in the 20-30 typhoons that hit the islands annually. This is one of the numerous reasons for the 'urgent need for immediate and massive mangrove replanting' that J.H. Primavera from the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center and J.M.A. Esteban from De La Salle University, both in the ...

Terra Daily:

Asia's top security forum agreed Thursday on military exercises aimed at forging a regional taskforce to deal with calamities like those that struck Myanmar and China this year. The ASEAN Regional Forum resolved two years ago to develop guidelines for joint disaster relief, but the confused response to the Myanmar cyclone showed up the fact that little has been done since then. Singapore ...

Terra Daily:

Solid Fuels Tested In Cyclone Technologies Green Engine

Terra Daily:

Pompano Beach, FL (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 - Cyclone Power Technologies announced that it has successfully completed combustion tests of coal powder through the fuel injector of the company's award-winning Cyclone Engine. These tests of coal powder present significant proof of the Cyclone Engine's versatility in utilizing diverse fuel sources without modification of the engine's primary components and system design. In this specific ...

Sci-Tech Today:

Texas Starts Cleanup After Hurricane

Sci-Tech Today:

Hurricane Dolly Lashes Texas Coast

Sci-Tech Today:

Forecasters say Hurricane Dolly has made landfall near South Padre Island in Texas. Dolly is a Category 2 storm with winds near 100 mph, and has already forced thousands of people into shelters.

Environmental News Service:

Hurricane Dolly Rips into South Texas

Rigzone:

Mexico's Pemex Reports No Damage from Hurricane Dolly

Rigzone:

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - - Mexican state oil firm Pemex hasn't found any signs of damage after Hurricane Dolly passed through the company's northern operations on Wednesday.

Rigzone:

MMS Finalizes Stats on GOM Production, Hurricane Dolly

Rigzone:

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - - MMS is concluding its activities related to Hurricane Dolly. This is the final update of evacuation and shut-in production statistics for Hurricane Dolly. As of today, personnel have been evacuated from a total of 43 production platforms.

Rigzone:

Oil Prices Lower as Hurricane Threat Fades

Rigzone:

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - - While major energy commodities all began the day lower, analysts point to the fading threat from Hurricane Dolly on energy equipment in the Gulf of Mexico as the reason for lower prices for crude oil and natural gas.

Rigzone:

- Oil companies and offshore drillers continued evacuating workers from facilities in the western Gulf of Mexico Monday as Tropical Storm Dolly tested the companies' storm procedures for the first time in the 2008 hurricane season.

Rigzone:

- Anadarko Petroleum is shutting in production and is removing about 180 workers from three platforms in the western Gulf of Mexico on fears of Tropical Storm Dolly.

Rigzone:

MMS Monitors Hurricane Dolly, Evacuations Continue

Rigzone:

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - - Offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico are evacuating platforms and rigs in the path of Hurricane Dolly. It is estimated that approximately 4.66% of the oil and 5.13% of the natural gas production in the Gulf has been shut-in.

Christian Science Monitor:

Hurricane season: big start - July's storms bolster forecasts for a very active year.

Discovery Online:

The findings should help scientists better understand the more powerful but less common - geomagnetic storms

The Mercury:

Tassie was cut in two by a snow storm that blocked major roads.

Terra Daily:

Corpus Christi, Texas (AFP) July 24, 2008 - Tropical Storm Dolly dumped rain over Texas and Mexico Thursday after pummeling the coast as a category two hurricane a day earlier, leaving widespread floods in its wake. The Gulf of Mexico's first hurricane of the season ripped off rooftops, shattered windows and toppled trees and power lines, but the storm surge did not cause any breach in south Texas levees as some authorities had feared ...

Terra Daily:

Dolly Now A Tropical Storm, Shattered Brownsville Rainfall Records

Sci-Tech Today:

Residents and recovery teams began fanning out across south Texas and cars crept along roads with darkened stoplights as the region got its first look at the destruction left by Hurricane Dolly. - Forecasters say Hurricane Dolly has made landfall near South Padre Island in Texas. Dolly is a Category 2 storm with winds near 100 mph, and has already forced thousands of people into shelters.

Bangkok Post:

PAD guard killed as 700 opponents storm rally

International Herald Tribune:

Substorms in space

Stuff:

No ordinary storm: Civil Defence alert

Stuff:

Civil Defence in Auckland has just issued an alert for the city as a powerful storm heads south.

Rigzone:

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - - Oil companies and offshore drillers continued evacuating workers from facilities in the western Gulf of Mexico Monday as Tropical Storm Dolly tested the companies' storm procedures for the first time in the 2008 hurricane season.

Rigzone:

- Anadarko Petroleum is shutting in production and is removing about 180 workers from three platforms in the western Gulf of Mexico on fears of Tropical Storm Dolly.

CBS:

Dumped On By Dolly - Widespread flooding, wind damage in south Texas

Science Daily:

Flooding feared along U.S.-Mexico border from Dolly

Yahoo (Top Stories):

U.S.- Mexico border bracing for Dolly flooding

Yahoo (Top Stories):

Thu Jul 24, 6:17 PM ET - BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - Hurricane Dolly, which lashed the U.S.-Mexico coastline, weakened to a tropical depression on Thursday over South Texas, but concern remained over flooding along the populous Rio Grande Valley.

Terra Daily:

Dolly's rains dwindle, leaving floods in Texas, Mexico

Terra Daily:

Corpus Christi, Texas (AFP) July 24, 2008 - Tropical Storm Dolly dumped rain over Texas and Mexico Thursday after pummeling the coast as a category two hurricane a day earlier, leaving widespread floods in its wake. The Gulf of Mexico's first hurricane of the season ripped off rooftops, shattered windows and toppled trees and power lines, but the storm surge did not cause any breach in south Texas levees as some authorities had feared ...

EurekAlert!:

Region hit hard by 1993 floods showed economic resiliency, study indicates - With the first wave of clean-up efforts behind them, residents of communities affected by this year's Midwest floods may find hope in a University of Illinois study on the economic impact of the 1993 flood that devastated much of the same region.

Environmental News Network:

Northern Wildfire Smoke May Cast Shadow on Arctic Warming - The Arctic may get some temporary relief from global warming if the annual North American wildfire season intensifies, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado and NOAA. Smoke transported to the Arctic from northern forest fires may cool the surface for several weeks to months at a time, according to the most detailed analysis yet of how smoke influences the Arctic climate relative to the amount of snow and ice cover.

The Mercury:

Tassie was cut in two by a snow storm that blocked major roads.

Stuff:

Snow hampers travel in South Island

Guardian Unlimited:

Melting glacier leaves China with no room for doubt

Guardian Unlimited:

Video: China's melting glacier

Guardian Unlimited:

Life in the shadow of China's melting glacier

BBC (Europe):

Forest fire spreading on Rhodes

CBS:

U.S.: India Nuke Deal Will Limit Pollution

Environmental News Network:

Northern Wildfire Smoke May Cast Shadow on Arctic Warming - The Arctic may get some temporary relief from global warming if the annual North American wildfire season intensifies, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado and NOAA. Smoke transported to the Arctic from northern forest fires may cool the surface for several weeks to months at a time, according to the most detailed analysis yet of how smoke influences the Arctic climate relative to the amount of snow and ice cover.

Financial Times:

Eurozone growth prospects crumble

Scoop:

22 July 2008 12:23pm | Department of Conservation - The Department of Conservation (DOC) uses aerial application of sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) as a valuable biodiversity protection tool to control mammalian pests that threaten conservation values.

On Line Opinion:

Red listed - biodiversity threatened - The risk of losing precious species has never been higher and this loss of biodiversity is by far the most pressing crisis we face.

EurekAlert!:

Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops - Resisting pressures to convert wetlands for agriculture, bio-fuels and hydro-electricity is vital to avoid destroying ecosystems that provide a suite of services essential to humanity, including safe, steady local water supplies, preserving biodiversity and the large-scale capture and storage of climate warming greenhouse gases, according 700 leading world experts concluding a week-long meeting in Cuiaba, Brazil.

Science Daily:

Gray And Green Together: Older Adults Can Play Role In Creating Healthier Environment

Times of India:

Eat less to save environment

All Africa News:

Sustainable Development

All Africa News:

Think Globally, Act Locally [editorial] - THE financial, food-price and energy-cost crises reverberating around the world is clear evidence of just how inextricably connected the inhabitants of the global village are. The same applies to the environment and climate change.

New Scientist:

Americans must diet to save their economy - Ecologists calculate that a change in diet could bring massive energy savings and decrease the pressure on the environment

New Scientist:

ENVIRONMENT BLOG

UNEP:

Tuesday 22 July 2008 - Thailand's 'Plant for the Planet, Plant for the Future' campaign was launched today at the opening ceremony of the Sirindhorn International Environment Park(SIEP).

EurActiv:

PEW ENVIRONMENT - Administrative Assistant

EurActiv:

Environment -

EDIE:

Edie TV - See our interview with new Environment Agency Acting Chief Exec Paul Leinster

The Australian:

Garrett accused of solar gag - FEDERAL Environment Minister Peter Garrett is under fire for preventing government officials appearing at an inquiry into means testing of the solar panel rebate.

ABC News Online:

The most recent Environment stories.

ABC News Online:

July 25, 2008 14:05:00 - Coalition and Greens Senators are angry at the Federal Environment Department for withdrawing from a hearing on means testing solar panel rebates.

ABC News Online:

The Senate's environment committee will today begin an inquiry into the Federal Government's plans to means-test the solar panel rebate program.

GreenBiz:

Work Environment Sponsor

BBC:

SNP delivers political earthquake

Guardian Unlimited:

Iain Macwhirter: Earthquake in Glasgow East

Science Daily:

Chinese Earthquake Provides Lessons For Future

Science Daily:

July 24, 2008 - - The May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China was unexpectedly large. Analysis of the area, however, now shows that topographic characteristics of the highly mountainous area identified the mountain range ... >

Science Daily:

Saving Lives After Natural Disasters With Fast Set-Up Phone Network

Science Daily:

Scientists Solve Aurora Borealis Mystery

Yahoo (World):

Asian Tsunami Disaster

New Scientist:

Magnetic slingshot creates aurora on Earth

New Scientist:

Total eclipse to pass over China and Siberia

New Scientist:

Magnetic slingshot creates aurora on Earth - NASA's THEMIS satellites may have resolved a long-standing mystery of how some auroras form

Discovery Online:

SLIDESHOW: Northern Lights - The eerie flickering of the aurora borealis is caused by explosions of magnetic energy.

Discovery Online:

The eerie flickering of the Aurora Borealis is caused by explosions of magnetic energy, say astronomers.

The Mercury:

THE multicoloured aurora borealis and aurora australis -- the Northern Lights and Southern Lights -- represent some of Earth's most dazzling natural displays.

Environmental News Service:

FORT McMURRAY, Alberta, Canada, July 24, 2008 (ENS) - Eleven Greenpeace activists entered Syncrude's Aurora North Tar Sands facility north of Fort McMurray today, erecting a banner that transformed the opening of a tailings pond pipe into the "mouth" of a giant skull, spewing toxic sludge. Two other activists hung a banner reading "World's Dirtiest Oil: Stop the Tar Sands," on the bank of the tailings pond.

The Japan Times:

Tohoku earthquake leaves 132 injured - At least 132 people are injured when a powerful earthquake hits northern Japan with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8.

Asahi:

A man at a car dealership in Karumai, Iwate Prefecture, cleans up the mess caused by Thursday morning's earthquake in the Tohoku region. The quake, the second big one in 40 days in the area, had a magnitude of 6.8. An intensity of upper 5 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 was recorded in Karumai. (NOBORU TOMURA/THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)

IRIN:

USAID donates US$1.7 million in food aid

Discovery Online:

From Garbage to Gas Tank: Trash as Biofuel - Can you run a car on trash? Yes, and within two years, say biofuel companies.

Discovery Online:

From Garbage to Gas Tank: Trash as Biofuel

EurekAlert!:

Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops - Resisting pressures to convert wetlands for agriculture, bio-fuels and hydro-electricity is vital to avoid destroying ecosystems that provide a suite of services essential to humanity, including safe, steady local water supplies, preserving biodiversity and the large-scale capture and storage of climate warming greenhouse gases, according 700 leading world experts concluding a week-long meeting in Cuiaba, Brazil.

Environmental News Service:

Bacteria Convert Biodiesel Waste Into Valuable Chemicals

Financial Times:

Brazilian ethanol plants to get $260m loan

Environmental Finance:

Huge postbag delays decision on US biofuel target

Greentech Media:

Biofuel Pain Could Be Primafuel's Gain

Greentech Media:

July 21, 2008 - The California company has launched a subsidiary to help make conventional biofuels more efficient and to help commercialize biofuels from cellulosic materials.

BBC (Sci/Tech):

Renewables mandate 'undermined' - Green groups accuse the UK government of trying to sabotage Europe’s rules on renewable energy.

Guardian Unlimited:

Gallery: China's renewable energy revolution

Guardian Unlimited (Science):

Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe's electricity, says EU - Largescale renewable energy grid at heart of plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing power of desert sun

Environmental News Network:

Solar power means more than solar panels. These days it can also mean collectors, towers, dyes, oh my! Here[rsquo]s a guide to (most of) the different kinds of solar technologies that are out there today. First, the basics: Anything that uses solar energy as a source of power is solar-powered. Simple, right? Well let[rsquo]s not forget that the sun gives us more than a whole spectrum of light, it also gives us heat. Both are used for a wide variety of applications, not just electricity.

New Scientist:

Americans must diet to save their economy - Ecologists calculate that a change in diet could bring massive energy savings and decrease the pressure on the environment

On Line Opinion:

Hot rocks rock! - The renewable energy resources are available - all that is required is the political will and a movement away from orthodox economic thinking.

Environmental News Service:

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 22, 2008 (ENS) - Europe's largest onshore windfarm, able to generate enough power for 320,000 homes, has been approved by the Scottish government. Announcing the new windfarm approval ahead of the World Renewable Energy Congress in Glasgow, First Minister Alex Salmond said the 152-turbine Clyde windfarm near Abington in South Lanarkshire is "another step towards making Scotland the green energy capital of Europe."

GreenBiz:

Pew Center and Toyota Team Up to Research Energy Efficiency Best Practices